Introduction to Plasma Physics: With Space, Laboratory and by Donald A. Gurnett,Amitava Bhattacharjee

By Donald A. Gurnett,Amitava Bhattacharjee

Introducing simple ideas of plasma physics and their functions to area, laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, this new version presents up to date fabric all through. issues coated comprise single-particle motions, kinetic concept, magnetohydrodynamics, small amplitude waves in cold and warm plasmas, and collisional results. New additions comprise the ponderomotive strength, tearing instabilities in resistive plasmas and the magnetorotational instability in accretion disks, charged particle acceleration by way of shocks, and a closer examine nonlinear phenomena. A wide variety of purposes are explored: planetary magnetospheres and radiation belts, the confinement and balance of plasmas in fusion units, the propagation of discontinuities and surprise waves within the sunlight wind, and research of varied varieties of plasma waves and instabilities that may take place in planetary magnetospheres and laboratory plasma units. With step by step derivations and self-contained introductions to mathematical equipment, this booklet is perfect as a complicated undergraduate to graduate-level textbook, or as a reference for researchers.

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